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A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service. By Melody Webb. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xiii + 272 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
      In this timely and candid memoir, Melody Webb presents important insights gained from her nearly twenty-five-year career in the National Park Service (NPS). Beginning as a staff historian in Alaska before the passage of the 1980 Alaska Lands Bill, Webb served as Southwest regional historian, superintendent of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, and assistant superintendent of Grand Teton National Park. As she moved up the career ladder, she faced the challenges and controversies that put the policies of this popular, but very public, federal agency under constant scrutiny. Citizens from hot air balloon promoters to congressional delegations badgered by constituents wanted access to park revenues or protection from NPS environmental policies. . . .
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